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I highly recommend the book titled "A Rising Star Of Promise: The Wartime Diary And Letter Of David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers 1861-1864"
I just finished it and it is a great first account perspective on the horrors of the battlefield and the struggles the soldiers endured during long marches and camp life. This is my wife's 2nd cousin, 5x removed.
I am about to begin a book titled "Marching with the First Nebraska - A Civil War Diary". My wife had two relatives, 2nd cousins, who served in this unit during the war. The older brother, Martin, entered the unit in 1861. His younger brother Lewis entered the unit in August 1864. Lewis was killed in action with Indians on October 13, 1864. After that, in Martin's service records, he gets in serious trouble for "neglecting his horse" in November 1864. The cardinal sin for a cavalryman. Obviously this must have been because his younger brother was killed the prior month, but the letters I have from his commanding officer want him out of the unit and placed in prison. Martin stays with the unit through the end of the war and in September of 1865, he deserts the unit. Unfortunately, I have checked the end of this book before I started and the author leaves the 1st Nebraska due to a friendly fire incident in the summer of 1864. I was hoping to find out what took place when Lewis was killed by Indians in October of that year.
I just finished it and it is a great first account perspective on the horrors of the battlefield and the struggles the soldiers endured during long marches and camp life. This is my wife's 2nd cousin, 5x removed.
I am about to begin a book titled "Marching with the First Nebraska - A Civil War Diary". My wife had two relatives, 2nd cousins, who served in this unit during the war. The older brother, Martin, entered the unit in 1861. His younger brother Lewis entered the unit in August 1864. Lewis was killed in action with Indians on October 13, 1864. After that, in Martin's service records, he gets in serious trouble for "neglecting his horse" in November 1864. The cardinal sin for a cavalryman. Obviously this must have been because his younger brother was killed the prior month, but the letters I have from his commanding officer want him out of the unit and placed in prison. Martin stays with the unit through the end of the war and in September of 1865, he deserts the unit. Unfortunately, I have checked the end of this book before I started and the author leaves the 1st Nebraska due to a friendly fire incident in the summer of 1864. I was hoping to find out what took place when Lewis was killed by Indians in October of that year.